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Current Health Care Trends – 2005 and Beyond

Health care costs continue to be a top priority for employers. What will 2005 bring? Find out as Managers from three consulting firms (Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Deloitte & Touche, and Towers Perrin) discuss what their latest health care surveys show as trends for 2005 and beyond. Specifically, this teleweb will cover accountbased healthcare and the future of employer sponsored health plans, as follows. Current Trends in Accountbased Healthcare Employer views on accountbased healthcare Interest in HSAs vs HRAs Views of early adopters Concerns of the cautious Growing trends towards accountbased retiree health care strategies Surprising set of statistics on how employers see accountbased health care Employer Sponsored Health plansCan they really change? Will employees embrace HSAs as a longterm strategy? Will Medicare Part D add another face to the consumerdrive healthcare architecture? With medical inflation abating, will the mandate for change continue? Presenters Randall Abbott National Leader – Workforce Benefits Strategies Watson Wyatt Worldwide Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John Erb Senior Manager Deloitte & Touche, LLP Miami, Florida Paula Wickland Principal Towers Perrin Stamford, Connecticut Unable to attend at this day and time? The recorded version of this presentation will be available for purchase in a CDROM format. This CD includes the audio presentation and the presentation handouts.

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